“they were nice in a useless sort of way, which is, after all, the only way to be truly nice.” — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“Not only is history useless, but the historian should take pride in its uselessness.” — James C. Malin Copy Share Image
To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Being divorced does not necessarily make one’s advice on marriage useless … or useful.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them. — Klemens von Metternich Copy Share Image
A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity,… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
“Huh.” “Huh what?” “Would you look at this?” he asked, examining a small box. “It says it glows in the dark.” “So?”… — Karen Chance Copy Share Image
Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If it were considered desirable to destroy a human being, the only thing necessary would be to give his work a character… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“In practice people who study philosophy too long become very odd birds, not to say thoroughly vicious; while even those who are… — Plato Copy Share Image
“People skills are useless with cats, because cats are immune to training, and do whatever they decide in any situation... And most… — Will Advise Copy Share Image
Both the young and the old are almost completely useless in our modern society, and are made keenly aware of that uselessness.… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
“… if you knew the mess my life was in … the waste of it … the uselessness of it. I have… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“The new, alien string of letters had no illustration. No etymology. No pronunciation guide, even. It was just a hard-hearted, ungenerous little… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The key to overcoming aloneness and a feeling of uselessness for one who is physically able is to step outside yourself by… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
We are all human beings, immigrant or non-immigrant. We all feel fear. We all love and become confused when we don't act… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My own uselessness is devouring me. Soon there will be only bones left. A familiar feeling, one I’ve had too often ever… — Mariam Petrosyan Copy Share Image
... the attempt to control poetry, to subordinate it to extrapoetic ends, constitutes misuse… it may be poetry's stubborn quality of rockbottom,… — Jan Clausen Copy Share Image
Through my grandmother's stories always life moved, moved heroically toward an end. Nobody ever cried in my grandmother's stories. They worked, or… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
“Nature is interested in only two things—to survive and to reproduce one like itself. Anything you superimpose on that, all the cultural… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Think of something useless, and that's probably what I'll be doing. Listen, Virginia, we need to love the useless. We need to… — Lygia Fagundes Telles Copy Share Image
“startling! such determination in the dull and uninspired and the copyists. they never lose the fierce gratitude for their uneventfulness, nor do… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“It is rather odd to find Dunbar referring to dance as useless: ‘dancing, a phenomenon that probably ranks, along with smiling and… — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
“Why were Jack and his brother digging post holes? A fence there would run parallel to the one that already enclosed the… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
I had never wanted to be one of those girls in love with boys who would not have me. Unrequited love -… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
The criminal misuse of time was pointing out the mistakes. Catching them―noticing them―that was essential. If you did not in your own… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
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